With his older daughter, Zanny, Roland Merullo writes the popular Substack newsletter Hi Zan, Hi Pa. Merullo is the bestselling and award-winning author of numerous works of fiction, including the historical novels Once Night Falls, From These Broken Streets, and A Harvest of Secrets; Breakfast with Buddha, a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Talk-Funny Girl, an Alex Award winner. He is also the author of the memoir Revere Beach Elegy, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Newsweek, Details, the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston magazine, among many other publications. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Brown University, Merullo lives with his wife, photographer Amanda Merullo, in the hills of western Massachusetts and travels frequently to Italy for research and pleasure. For more information, visit rolandmerullo.com.